Larissa Lury
Larissa Lury is a theater director, an associate professor at New Mexico State University, a deviser, and a former acrobat. She seeks artwork and experiences that open her to new ways of looking at the world around her, and strives to create those experiences for others. She’s directed and workshopped plays for companies including: San Diego Rep, Nashville Rep, American Shakespeare Center, The Assembly, Cherry Lane (Mentor Project), The Playwrights’ Center, Urbanite, Portland Center Stage, Southern Rep, InterAct, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Ma-Yi, The Playwrights Realm, New Jersey Rep, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, and Curious Theatre Company. Larissa’s grateful for the support she’s received for her work, including as a member of the inaugural group of National Directing Fellows, through The Drama League’s Next Stage Residency, a New Georges Audrey Residency, an LMCC Process Space Residency, as Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a chashama AREA Award recipient. She was a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, is a part of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, and is a New Georges Affiliate Artist. She received a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA from UC San Diego. She works to cultivate practices, processes and structures for our field that are as innovative, equitable, inspiring, productively malleable, supportive and humane as an industry built on creativity warrants (so if you’ve got ideas and want to talk about how to do that better, please reach out!). larissalury.com